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+ S3C2410 DMA
+ ===========
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+ The kernel provides an interface to manage DMA transfers
+ using the DMA channels in the CPU, so that the central
+ duty of managing channel mappings, and programming the
+ channel generators is in one place.
+
+
+DMA Channel Ordering
+--------------------
+
+ Many of the range do not have connections for the DMA
+ channels to all sources, which means that some devices
+ have a restricted number of channels that can be used.
+
+ To allow flexibility for each CPU type and board, the
+ DMA code can be given a DMA ordering structure which
+ allows the order of channel search to be specified, as
+ well as allowing the prohibition of certain claims.
+
+ struct s3c24xx_dma_order has a list of channels, and
+ each channel within has a slot for a list of DMA
+ channel numbers. The slots are searched in order for
+ the presence of a DMA channel number with DMA_CH_VALID
+ or-ed in.
+
+ If the order has the flag DMA_CH_NEVER set, then after
+ checking the channel list, the system will return no
+ found channel, thus denying the request.
+
+ A board support file can call s3c24xx_dma_order_set()
+ to register a complete ordering set. The routine will
+ copy the data, so the original can be discarded with
+ __initdata.
+
+
+Authour
+-------
+
+Ben Dooks,
+Copyright (c) 2007 Ben Dooks, Simtec Electronics
+Licensed under the GPL v2